Here's what I'm working on to provide a full complement of TeX goodies on 
SL7:

I installed the latest TeXlive in a network directory accessible to all my 
SL7 machines.  I am working on creating an RPM that will install symlinks 
to all the relevant commands etc, and that RPM's spec file will have a 
"provides" for everything that the upstream Texlive package provides.  In 
that way I should be able to install RPMs that depend on TeX (e.g. kile) 
without triggering an install of the upstream packages.  Any feedback on 
this?

thanks,

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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